Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors, French -- Biography
Rousseau, Jean Baptiste, banished
on his dispute with M. Saurin,
II. 6. His quarrel with Voltaire,
17. 31.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, ridiculed
by Voltaire, II. 88. Born at Geneva
in 1712, 111. His studies in
that town, 112. Early life of, 113.
His "Confessions," 113. _et passim._
His rambles, 115. Visits the curé
Pontverre, 116. Visits madame de
Warens at Annecy, 117. Is sent as
a proselyte to an hospital at Turin,
117. Errors and consequent remorse,
119. Leads a vagabond
life, 120. Returns to madame de
Warens, 121. His want of moral
courage, 121. She departs for
Paris, 122. Becomes a music-master
at Neufchâtel, 122. And
at Chambery, 124. His projects,
125. Resides with madame de
Warens at Les Charmettes, near
Chambery, 125. His new method
of noting music, 127. Arrives
in Paris, 128. Accompanies
M. Montaigu as secretary to Venice,
128. Returns to Paris, and
is kindly received by his former
friends, 129. His mistress, Thérèse
le Vasseur, 130. 144. 162. He
sends their children to the Foundling
Hospital, 131. His account of
this act in his "Confessions,"
130. Remissness of his moral sentiments,
132. His friendship for
Diderot, 133. 144. Laments his
friend's imprisonment, 144. The
academy of Dijon having proposed
a question as to the influence of
the progress of arts and sciences on
the happiness and virtue of man,
Jean Jacques, in an essay, asserts,
it to be of evil tendency, and so
eloquently as to bear off the palm
134. This success acquires him
consideration, 135. He refuses
the offer of a place with a farmer-general,
although a road to fortune,
129. 135. Earns a livelihood
by copying music, 135. His "Devin
du Village," 136. It becomes
the fashion with the great to encourage
and soothe him, 136. Revisits
Geneva, 137. Abjures the
Romish faith, 137. He inhabits
the Hermitage, near the wood of
Montmorenci, 138. His writings,
139. His meditations and day
dreams, 139. His "System of
Education," 139. Writes the
"Nouvelle Héloise," 140. 150. His
declarations to madame d'Houdetot,
142. His mental sufferings
nurtured by this hopeless passion,
145. Accusation against Grimm's
loyalty in his conduct to Rousseau,
145. Diderot's letter to
Rousseau respecting madame
d'Epinay, 146. Indecision of Jean
Jacques, 146. Removes to Montmorenci,
147. Diderot having offended
him, seeks a reconciliation,
and is repulsed, 148. The
nobility court him with compassionate
regard, 150. His religious
principles unsettled, 152. "The
Confession of the Vicar of Savoy,"
152. Consequences of the publication
of "Emile," 153. The
"Emile" of Rousseau condemned
to the flames at Geneva, 153.
Rousseau proceeds to Iverdun,
in the territory of Bern, 154.
Exiled by the states of Bern
and Geneva, he settles at Motiers,
near Neufchâtel, 154. Engages
in a controversy of the Genevans,
157. His "Lettres écrites de la
Montagne," 157. Resides in the
island of St. Pierre, lake of Bienne,
158. Accompanies David
Hume to England, 159. Writes
the first portion of his "Confessions"
at Wotton, 160.
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